NOVEMBER 29, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Margaret Duckhorn, co-founder of famous Napa winery, dies at 83 [paywall?]
• Agrology Raises Seed Funding to Drive Growth and Help Farmers Combat Climate Change
• Sovos ShipCompliant to Support Tock’s Direct-to-Consumer Wine Shop
• Spirits-Based RTDs, Part 1: Top Sellers Are Doubling In Size This Year [paywall?]
• Will Ingredient Labeling Upend the Drinks Biz? (podcast)
• 2 Calif Wines Make Liv-ex List Of World’s Top 10 Most Expensive
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

OBITUARIES

• Raising a Glass To Fred Franzia – A True Iconoclast
• Gallo employees who died were likely hit by car [paywall?]
• Napa Valley mourns the passing of Margaret Duckhorn
• Wine industry icon Margaret Duckhorn dies aged 83

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Bulk rides high as global trade in wine grows
• Spiralling costs are blowing wine buying rules ‘out of the water’
• Weighing Wine Scores against Price
• Wine’s Long-Dominant Drinking Demographic Is Being Devastated By Newer COVID Variants.
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Why Joe Wagner Jumped Into the Distilling Game
• Why winemaker Jonathan Pey left the Bay Area for France [paywall?]
• Bay Area cider industry shaken by sudden closures [paywall?]

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• ‘Giga Fire’ project aims to map California’s wildfire fuels
• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

DROUGHT/WATER

• Calif: Bureau of Reclamation urges Central Valley Project contractors to prepare for potential fourth dry year
• Study: California drought causes economic losses [paywall?]

COVID-19

• The SBA is distributing another $83 million in RRF money

DIVERSITY

• Napa Valley wine industry works to navigate paths towards diversity [paywall?]
• Wade Cellars is on a mission to make wine more accessible

HEALTH

• Alcohol Consumption and Changes in the Brain
• Improve memory as you age by eating more flavonols, study says
• My timeline is filled with mothers finding peace at the bottom of a wine glass, but alcohol and new parenthood don’t always mix
• European Food Safety Authority Concerned About Exposure to Sulfites from Food, Data Needed

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• France is home to the world’s largest organic area under vine

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• TTB Proposes Two New American Viticultural Areas and Expansion of An Existing Viticultural Area

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Antinori’s Piedmont Estate Prunotto Buys Vineyards in Serralunga d’Alba
• Kroger, Albertsons CEOs Heading to Washington

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Burgundy’s Hospices de Beaune Charity Auction Hits a $32 Million Record

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Wine aromas, part 2—On olfaction, the discipline of identifying wine aromas
• Wine Tasting and Expertise

MARKETING & SALES

• The Naughty & Nice of Last-Minute Holiday Marketing
• Mike Wangbickler: Get Us Market Ready With Italian Wine People (podcast)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Portuguese Native Wine Grapes and the New Age of Discovery
• How Ruinart is championing a new generation of creatives
• Castello di Vicarello: a fresh take on Tuscan reds

WINE PEOPLE

• How Not Named Wine Co uses community winemaking to make its wines
• Ntsiki Biyela, Founder Of Aslina Wines And One Of South Africa’s Young And Very Talented Winemakers [paywall?]
• With Climate-Consciousness In Mind, Gabriella Macari Is Putting the North Folk on Wine Lovers’ Radars
• KK Carothers – Bryant Estate (podcast)
• Nathan Carlson, Winemaker & GM, Center Of Effort, Edna Valley (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• U.S. Trade Survey Identifies “Dynamic Generation” in Languedoc Wine Region as Key Strength

WINE EDUCATION

• 12 WSET Diploma Study Tips

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Well-established central Pa. winery closes after nearly 2 decades in business
• Wine Sales Are Coming to Colorado Convenience, Grocery Stores

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Relationship between chemical parameters of tannins and inmouth attributes of grape phenolic fractions

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: Drink brands still going strong despite rise of discounters

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Neeraj Sachdeva talks about growing wine market of India

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Value of fine and rare whisky auction sales surge by 21%
• Scotch Whisky Prices Jump as Investors Seek Haven, FT Says [paywall?]